COSY Accelerator Produced Quarks In Six-packs. "For decades, physicists have searched in vain for exotic bound states comprising more than three quarks. Experiments performed at Jülich’s accelerator COSY have now shown that, in fact, such complex particles do exist in nature."

Jen-Luc Piquant is on tenterhooks for the Sunday night Season 4 finale of Game of Thrones. But what about last week's penultimate episode? Per Nerdist, the Game of Thrones Giants Fired Nearly Supersonic Arrows: "momentum matters."

Four-color theorem linked to crystal's magnetic properties. "Most technological materials such as steels or magnets exhibit complex domain structures, which often determine macroscopic physical properties," Sang-Wook Cheong, Professor at both Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, and at the Pohang University of Science and Technology in Pohang, South Korea, told Phys.org. "Our paper, for the first time, demonstrated that the configuration of domain structures can be understood in terms of mathematics, specifically color theorems."

Iceland in the Infrared: Stark Photographs of Icelandic Landscapes by UK Photographer Andy Lee. Per This Colossal: "Using infrared photography to pick up invisible light rather than visible light, Lee transformed Iceland into a series of stark, moody and somewhat dreamlike silhouettes."

"I was promised flying cars": Astrophysicist Adam Frank in the New York Timeson the four forces of nature and the physical limitations of our technological fantasies.

Boom, boom, boom, boom! Supernova recreated in laboratory. "The experiment could also shed light on why magnetic fields in intergalactic space are a million billion times stronger than theory predicts."

Whose entropy is it anyway? Part 1: Boltzmann, Shmoltzmann... Part 2: The so-called second law.

The Physics of Keeping Cool: over at Dot Physics, Rhett Allain walks us through the science of various refrigeration methods. (I wrote about the Albert Einstein-Leo Szilard refrigerator design back in 2010. They had a patent and everything.)

The Geology of D-Day. "aerial photos of shores of Normandy were studied to find suitable landing sites for invasion." Related: Battlefield Earth: The Geological Legacy of War. Some 60 million rounds were fired near the village of Verdun from February to August 1916. "All those explosions destroyed the local vegetation, reshaped and lowered the landscape, but also remixed the natural formed soil-layers and fractured the underlying bedrock – the effects of those few months are still visible today, almost 100 years after the war ended."

IRENE, The Machine That's Saving the History of Recorded Sound. A device in the basement of the Library of Congress produces images of sound, echoing the reason recording devices were invented in the first place.

Physics envy: Do ‘hard’ sciences hold the solution to the replication crisis in psychology?

NASA scientists have created a new recipe that captures key flavors of the brownish-orange atmosphere around Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

Simulations Reveal How White Lies Glue Society Together and Black Lies Create Diversity. Evolutionary biologists have long thought that lying ought to destroy societies. Now computational anthropologists have shown that nothing could be further from the truth.

"Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency: A [Probabilistic] Model for Male Audience Stimulation." That's the title of a 12-page report written by Stanford Researchers on Silicon Valley's (totes NSFW) "Mean Jerk Time" joke featured in last week's roundup. To start: "Assume a large presentation hall with at least one aisle."

Cost of U.S. Share of ITER Still Uncertain, Federal Auditors Stress. "Without a reliable international project schedule, DOE neither can propose a final, stable funding plan for the U.S. ITER project, nor can it reasonably assure Congress that the project's cost will not continue to grow and the schedule will not continue to slip..."

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